[mythtv-users] More Questions about JAMU

[Doug Vaughan]

Nasa,

1. When you run jamu in maintenance mode does it update the genre on the 
different video files?  If I read the wiki right, it should...  However,
Answer: When a video needs to add a genre the genre is added to the 
global genre pool, at the time of the new genre addition ONLY that 
specific video gets associated with the new genre.

1a. Given jamu does this for vidoes that don't have any genre list, how 
does it handle videos that have an incomplete list of genre?
Answer: If a video already has at least one associated genre no 
maintenance update is triggered even if there are some new data at TMDB 
or TVDB. If some other meta data field(s) are missing  an update is 
triggered and all missing data or changed data that is newly available 
gets updated including genres. Again this will only happen when some 
data is missing.

If for some reason you feel that a video has incomplete or out of date 
information then update the video using MythVideos "w" key. That will 
refresh the meta data. The alternative of checking on each video on 
every maintenance run could impact you personal bandwidth usage and 
adversely impact the two free resources we are so dependant on.

2. The wiki says to run the mass update without editing the genre list 
from themoviedb -- if that includes genre like "indie" which you don't 
want, should jamu remove it from films that have it listed as such?
Answer: Jamu does not have that feature. The comment on the wiki was to 
protect a user from eliminating meta data until they actually saw how it 
was used in the "new" MythUI.

3. I have a whole bunch of cartoons...  Some are correctly ID'd as 
animations, while some (in the same series) are not.  How do I fix this? 
(Same type of question for BSG -- none of them are listed as Sci-fi)
Answer: Jamu is at the mercy of the source of the meta data (tvdb and 
tmdb). You have two choices get an edit account on both TVDB and TMDB 
and add missing data or edit the meta data through the MythVideo 
interface. I hope you choose the first option so everyone can benefit.

4. I configured Storage Groups to match the directories I was previously 
using, including Fanart, Banners, and the such.  Running jamu with the 
move feature *moved* the video files to the appropriate paths, but left 
most of the fanart, banners, etc alone.  This hasn't been a problem -- 
but it didn't seem consistent (some of the artwork has *moved* to the 
appropriate path).
Answer: Jamu does not move graphics files. The move function will move 
video files/symlinks and other files in the video source directory to a 
video destination directory and update any existing meta data record 
with the new video file location.

If I understand your question correctly you expected Jamu to have 
changed the videometadata paths for graphics to relative paths. Jamu 
only updates the graphic paths when the file does not exist at the 
location in the videometadata record. In the case you describe I assume 
the SG graphics path is the same as the paths that are in the 
videometadata record so to Jamu nothing is wrong, which implies no updates.

Doug